ripple effect
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
An analogy to the spreading ripples on a body of water after an object has struck the surface.
Noun[edit]
ripple effect (plural ripple effects)
- The circumstance in which one event instigates an expansive set of other events.
- Defaults in America's mortgage lending businesses are causing a ripple effect through the major banks in other continents.
- 2016, Liz Nugent, Lying In Wait, →ISBN, page 115:
- Whatever had happened to her, her behaviour had ripple effects that were still causing upset and grief nearly five years later.
- 2022 February 22, Lananh Nguyen, Alan Rappeport, “Global Banks Poised for Turmoil as West Hits Russia With Sanctions”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- Global banks are bracing for the ripple effects of harsh new financial and economic sanctions against Russia intended to hobble its economy and restrict its access to foreign capital.
Translations[edit]
one event instigating a set of other events
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